presence of the thing which they were about to behold. That face was not wholly unknown to Marius. He thought he remembered the courtyard of the cloister, and on the banks of the Thil, four stone shooting-iron," the cavalry-man who says: "My turkey-cock," the He flashed the knife, which he held open in his hand, in the light of further than six inches beyond it. There he encountered a barrier of He had to be carried away and replaced by another. Several minutes were we also copy: "In a separate box, a neatly frizzed peruke, green creation, logic of darkness. That which crawls in the social third lower from poetry to prose. You were speaking of my name a little while ago. floor, and one story above; three rooms on the ground floor, three "Are you going to Arras?" added the road-mender. female Thénardier. neither badly clothed, nor badly fed; they were treated almost like things grown haggard, taciturn profiles which vanish when one advances, rectified from memory the whole of the letter A in the alphabetical list from the cold. This sort of dwelling is not usually occupied at night. were still bolder. They found means to climb on a roof, and risked their a popular superstition in the vicinity of Paris is like an aloe in Avenue de Neuilly; the white flag, showing faintly rosy in the setting the plucking at the strange chord. Alas! the supreme trial, let us say In the meantime, although he was a lawyer, and whatever Father His mind had just been illuminated by this flash of light:-- awaiting the day when she would love it for the stars that she would see himself took them for a whole throng. While his exasperated wife vociferated, Thénardier had seated himself on to delegate their authority. It was with this full power, and the The man dropped his head, picked up the knapsack which he had deposited An insurrection which breaks out, is an idea which is passing its This infallible passage of the king at the same hour was, therefore, the worthy man named M. Gillenormand, and who mention him with complaisance. Bahorel exclaimed:-- itself victorious over Bonaparte and well-rooted in the country, that is the poor man clasped his head in both hands, and meditated. Fantine was only a moderately good workwoman. Overcome with shame, even at the foot of the thicket. Then the abyss. Marius saluted Jean Valjean, happiness escorted despair to the door, and "Grantaire will you do me a service?" stir out. Javert watched the quarter for more than a month. I won't go to his funeral." but just at bottom, no one knows whom, a thief, a good-for-nothing, on the right had been summoned. Their helmets, which the torch lighted darkness, a supernatural and colossal form. the Rue du Figuier-Saint-Paul at Mother Gaucher's, put into Cosette's with Salamanca for the head of the order, and Alcala as the branch The cry: _Audacity! _ is a _Fiat lux_. It is necessary, for the sake of had been friends; there no longer existed any reason for such a thing. scruples, and was advancing on the prisoner. emerge from that sad place with thoughts of hatred and of wrath against vegetation. Let us seek the real. Let us get to the bottom of it. Let us could only give vent to two or three sobs, "Oh! Oh! Oh!" powerful in his crime. success, man is a failure. God made a mistake with that animal. A was not apparent. Her hair, a golden lock of which had escaped, seemed Marius made himself these replies, and declared to himself that they gathered up, bullets run, cartridges manufactured, lint scraped, the word blackguard characterizes in its two acceptations, he is ripe for of Parmentier, made a thousand efforts to have _pomme de terre_ [potato] in Fiévée. M. Agier laid down the law in them. They commentated M. of reaching his destination, he feared the moment when he should be The social question is the same for you as for us. There are a few less picture. But stop, sir, take a look at it." "Excuse us, sir, we have a papa and a mamma, but we don't know where CHAPTER II--COSETTE'S APPREHENSIONS fond of the cannoneer, sought him with its glance. Where is he? What is uniforms, who take no part in the fighting; pretended invalids; Thus,--and in the exaggeration of anguish, and the optical illusion of you." and some knaves. a handful of rays of light. In these few lines she felt a passionate, At the moment when Jean Valjean entered the redoubt, no one had noticed tiger, and fled. which was enveloped in a rag, and no longer appeared to know that he splendidly upon the coarse linen cloth. And since we are now painting basket. and all her laces on her daughter, the only vanity which was left to were admitted to view the thatched cottage at Austerlitz, a brawling There was a chair behind him; he dropped into it, terrified at the CHAPTER XIII--THE CATASTROPHE frightful chastisement which descends upon the convict guilty of a not seem as though his mind were in the barricade. When each had gone to resembled some one of whom his memory preserved a confused trace. He entered. All the men who were drinking turned round. The lamp side street, and Marius could not find him. This encounter occupied not always know why certain generals, great in other directions, have advantage of a moment when her back was turned, he crept up behind her truth, the sacred truth, was Sister Simplice's distinctive trait; it was which was attributed to him, he was even sought out and made much of. He "Come instantly--" In our opinion the whole question lies in the amount of thought that is The greater part of the wounded were able, and wished, to fight still. becomes extinct. "How much do you want, including your time of waiting and the drive?" passed. One day, M. Gillenormand, while his daughter was putting in order the him. Marius:-- with the same thoughts of delight in his heart, when he caught sight waited until twilight had fallen to slip into the baker's and purchase many open rose-buds, too many nightingales singing, too many green of danger, he was no longer either weary, or chilled or trembling; the limped a little:-- among the police, and striving to escape Vidocq's indiscreet glances its leisure. Lions converted into goats. Such was the flight. evidently some one there, who was holding a candle in his hand and The three women had profited by the respite of the night to vanish public mirth, who were imbued with the dignity of their harlequinade, able to escape the fact; that he was entering a sepulchre on the And to the ventriloquist:-- The husband died. The eldest of the seven children was eight years old. best road. "My God!" said she, "your hands are still colder than before. Are you idea, which was making the tour of the world; beside the son of France tenacity of right. The violations of Turkey on Greece and Thessaly, of ill-paid toil. He had never known a "kind woman friend" in his native for him was to die. solemnly lighted. They talked of one thing and another, without passion The man followed him. A certain amount of tempest is always mingled with a battle. _Quid who have palaces, and who roll in their carriages in the name of Jesus "No." She interrupted him impetuously:-- leaping and still laughing. 16 (return) [ Instead of _porte cochère_ and _porte bàtarde_.] fluttered away into glorious space, enthusiastic, ethereal, and was the Petit-Picpus and to the house of the Temple, leaves those two orders peaceful, attentive, serious, content with little, kindly; and he thanks very low tone:-- town and the wards of the hospitals; for enclosure only obedience; for him for the Empire. One personage, whose name has remained unknown, had fathers. The fathers, in despair, attacked the exempts. In that The little girl jumped off the bed with a shiver. disappeared. Once he chanced to say, as he was talking to himself, "I life, or add anything superfluous to his bare necessities. right. It would have been better to summon the other insurgents to his the enemy was not making any movement. Nothing was stirring; not a At the time of the insurrection of 1839, in the Rue Saint-Martin a The barricade was captured. things. I do not like to see folks accused unjustly. Monsieur le Baron, does not embarrass innocence. Thanks to these children, there was, effect which the infinitely great might produce on the infinitely small, glum. The people saw this. he still aspired to this, but he no longer expected it. extraordinary vicissitudes. Aided by science, which comes from one man, happy we are going to be! We shall have a little garden the very first industrious man, should have lacked bread. And whether, the fault once word. Moreover, certain natures being given, we admit the possible adventures; always ready to risk his life, never his work; disguising CHAPTER V--AT BOMBARDA'S order to attempt to form an idea of it, it is necessary to think of the stop our ears in order that we may not hear the reply, after we have backs turned to these two. Grantaire rose to his feet with a start, stretched out his arms, rubbed appeared erect upon the parapet of the quay, bent over towards the not even himself, had taken any notice:-- "I am cold," said Jean Valjean. The pole of the omnibus, although snapped off by the fusillade, was five, timidly turned the handle and entered the shop, with a request for million for the town and its poor. which paints the exhaustion of the two armies, Ney demanded infantry Marius had five francs handed in to the clerk's office of La Force for "The charter metamorphosed into flame." is human; I say, error is love. Ladies, I idolize you all. O Zéphine, O that boy had been creating an uproar in that peaceable arrondissement, Freiras, which is three hundred and seventeen fathoms above the level of his gaze fell on the Jondrette woman. She had on a black bonnet with of the past assume false names, and gladly call themselves the future. On the 22d of April, 1796, the victory of Montenotte, won by the In the meanwhile, Gavroche, who had retraced his steps at full speed, All at once, he raised his eyes; some one was walking in the street, he evidently with no further thought of anything connected with this life. nightfall, with the child, by way of the Barrier Monceaux. There on top of each other. God there I would have done it. My chamber is left on my hands. My in the light; excess burns. The flame is the enemy of the wing. To burn Je voyais un astre au fond du grenier. Then he explained to Jean Valjean that this was his recompense for a the sand any more but the little blades of grass at the wayside. I everywhere, soon began to grow uneasy over this religion. This deputy CHAPTER III--THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT was the brass vase, while Father Gillenormand was the iron pot. breast. exaggerated in size and bloodshot, and said to him calmly: he has arrived at that double moral and material degradation which the ceilings with great Gobelins and Beauvais tapestries representing latch. All that the first passer-by had to do at any hour, was to give Marius continued: clubs and bayonets; some, like Combeferre, with pistols thrust into that's a coarse color," replied the Bishop. "It is lucky that those who indomitable in the face of obstacles and gentle towards ingratitude. Courfeyrac also said to him: "Do not aspire to be venerable" [they Almost immediately, the plank which closed the hole was drawn aside, There, moreover, lay the difference between his tenderness and the depended on Cîteaux. This order of the Perpetual Adoration is not very This obscurity, which had probably been desired and calculated on by the the discourse which you meant to bestow upon me, Mr. Lawyer, and that's "All the same," said Jondrette, "there's no harm in going to see whether the Court and allotted the lodgings.] things. half-open door, made sure that he was praying. side of it. listened. With the exception of the patrol, no one had passed through CHAPTER IV--THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS this was rubbish, a shapeless mass, chaos; he himself, Javert, the spy made the passengers alight, offered his hand to "the ladies," dismissed "Here. What do you want with him?" of the boulevard, reached a point where it might be said that Paris mysteries, had been transformed and become fitted to shelter chaste "Immediately?" politically, it is all votes possessed of the same weight; religiously, Jean Valjean turned round at the noise made by Fauchelevent opening the had waited with decidedly too much amiability and that he must have a "What church?" The other replied with some hesitation, and shivering beneath his fez:-- thing which she did not doubt was that he had come to get her. She could Marius turned over all this confusion of ideas in his mind, passing from passers-by of this "specialty"; he had dipped a brush in a pot of black returned: she had but one thought now,--to flee at full speed through apparatus of Babylon, a cavern, ditch, gulf pierced with streets, a It was the hour for the departure of the mail-coaches and diligences. off nearly all his furniture. On the day of his entrance into his new Enjolras meditated for a few moments, and made the gesture of a man who Who could have bound the lamb to the wolf, and, what was still more illuminations, one would say that they smoked and that the wind blew revolution, and from philosophical protest becomes an armed protest, and arm was still bleeding. It was Jean Valjean. worn tenderly on the heart. How stupid they are! Some abominable fright Marius had paid for two. Besides political conversations which had for their principal subjects both eyes proudly. injustice of his misfortune had conferred upon him was giving way within your locks, to please low women, to be handsome. You will be shaven authorities." giddiness of a possible fall, and to the horror of a certain arrest, CHAPTER III--SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE confession. There, no more false appearances, no plastering over is "I will pay it," said the mother. "I have eighty francs. I shall have He fixed a penetrating glance on the stranger. An examining judge could CHAPTER VII--THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED a supreme hour, began to recite love verses. "And the hotel bill?" observed Courfeyrac. admit his brother to the house as a gardener, and his niece as a pupil. more difficult to pierce and to penetrate than the geological formation most important_, and then went away. They never stayed more than ten the conduit touched the pavement. Perhaps there was some way of climbing arm-chair, ran, so far as a man can run at ninety-one, to the door, her as a gentleman of means who had been ruined by Spanish bonds, who End of the dictatorship. A whole European system crumbled away. author of this book, who had gone to get a near view of this volcano, He had not the strength to retrace his steps, to recommence the journey against his conviction. It is unnecessary to add that M. Gillenormand continued to perform spreading her wings like a fan over her brood; the father fluttered child? very good; in that case I mourn with you. Is it for the royal a horseman made his appearance and handed to the one who seemed to be and brandished his cane, cherished for him, at the most, only that coming myself." Marius was dazzled by those eyes fraught with rays and Aspasia embarked with Pericles upon the fleet at Samos. One last word. fireplace. The host, who was also the chief cook, was going from one The last of these stalls, established precisely opposite the his conclavist, Monseigneur Cotiret, Bishop _in partibus_ of Caryste: Où je t'adorais du soir au matin. made him see light. reproached with raising, erecting, and heaping up, against the reigning would cast a graceful shadow on "his spouse," and would result in what It was a useful precaution; it will be recollected that his window could all climes, and he is groaning in all languages. he was reduced to confess, in his inmost heart, the sublimity of that resemble you!" Strange and sad to say, at that very moment, Marius had not yet received means to light the fire; every syllable spelled out sparkles. perfumed than the summer Mirabelle, owes its origin. He went to mass former companion in the galleys, Jean Valjean?" from Hecuba to la Mère-Grand. on each other, they paid no heed to this. The doctor saw Jean Valjean and spoke with him. advantage of a moment when her back was turned, he crept up behind her in his soul. He felt what the earth may possibly feel, at the moment These two beings who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so lassitude, their green caps drawn over their eyes, to remount, two by For Marius, to listen to Cosette discussing finery; and rectitude than ever. Marius surveyed by a calm and real, although though very rarely, when he was engaged in some pressing work. Even when CHAPTER XVII--THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE of them, then returned to the extremity whence he had come, and began "Never!" was, of course, common to the Boarding-school, the Great Convent, and like that. I am right, am I not? Still, I don't say--you are rich; you would not go much further than the tilbury; a regular ramshackle old The father replied: us alone for a moment. We are talking figures. That will bore you." personal motives duty, that general obligation, and to be conscious, in least serious are reserved, they have for their venial offences what hastens, is precipitated. The disintegration is unprecedented. Ney may not fall into sin on our account." on and all ready to go out. belated passer-by in the distance might have taken for a phantom, by some porter or other, and it was a new coat. But this coat was green. degrading for the son of Colonel Pontmercy in the combat which was about under side of civilization. mole, the past, prowling through the shadows, in the filth which has would have been well if Monseigneur Bienvenu had not been a Royalist, the other, and you say, "That is all there is of it!" Braid them, twist remains only a doll. fictions and the hatreds of this world, above the stormy vicissitudes of road the cuirassiers would have overwhelmed the centre and decided the Thénardier was one of those double natures which sometimes pass through indignantly; rabble, multitude, populace. These are words and quickly revolt had enveloped everything in its smoke. These great fevers create the habit of opening more frequently than was supposed. This softness youth and her virginity which remained to her, palpitated, though they CHAPTER III--THE EXTREME EDGE And, after a silence, fraught with anxiety, Fauchelevent exclaimed:-- "How stupid I am!" thought Jean Valjean. "She had not noticed him. It is one saw Jean Valjean sustaining the fainting Marius in his arms, part of his books, but of his prints,--that to which he was the shoulder-stick of fire, and the latter defends himself by stoning the This took place in Cosette's chamber. Cosette turned towards the "Sit down, sir, and warm yourself. We are going to sup in a few moments, Saint-Procopius, etc., etc.; and thus I give it to you, father." And the insurrections. It was particularly zealous and intrepid in the days of "Monsieur le maire, it may be that it is of this very flock of wolves framed within the text of the code, that the unforeseen compelled "That pack of brats! they convene on the Place du Panthéon! by my life! to try such and such a thing?" The girl whom he could no longer call dressed in men's clothes. chimney-piece, which seemed to be extending its arms to both of them, existed in certain men a veritable bestial instinct, though pure and face, assumed a terrible air, and said: "Take aim!" when all at once, they heard a strong voice shout beside English soldier, to the English army, to the English people. If trophy The investigation had begun. A voice broke forth from the mist of smoke, interrupted by another beautiful neighbor without a guimpe so that her throat was only heard steps near him. He looked, and by the light of the lanterns, in abandoned a quarter of an hour previously, leaned on his elbows and Paris without a king has as result the world without despots. This is straightened himself stiffly up without bending, grasped his bludgeon "What's the good of that?" It served to save from the cold, the frost, tickled in his self-love. Favourite resumed:-- "Peace is happiness digesting." "Do you know, I'm going to turn Cosette out of doors to-morrow." "I think the likeness is strong." of you; your conscience? No, your boots." Do you want Spanish? The old Gothic slang abounded in it. Here is of the sepulchre had sprung forth from the earth and had spread over the witty and mirthful, such as, "How ugly you are!--Will you get out of my you to be grieved. What can be done for it? Can I be of any service? to put new soles on their old shoes. And all this awkward batch of brats the northern door, belonging to the farm. Napoleon sent his brother into Lebel. an intermeddling with authority, an interference which is always She walked straight up to the bed. Marius endured an indescribable it had, itself, been brought in in the same fashion. It did not perceive "Ah, you have said _thou_ to me!" exclaimed Cosette. CHAPTER III--JAVERT SATISFIED world to which he belonged. One day, at the period when he had his come or send here. You will ask for Inspector Javert." indecent, but it was prettier than usual. She made her toilet thus Change." the removal of the letters still allowed THEATRE OF THE EMPRESS to at Capua; it is Danton falling asleep at Arcis-sur-Aube. Just after he had turned the inner angle of the edifice, he observed fatigue, and in an expiring condition, in the gloom, at a wall. He would How I'd treat him to a nice respectful summons! How nicely I'd get along It was necessary to fetch it from a considerable distance; the end of spring of 1832, the epoch when the first great epidemic of this century give Cosette my arm . . . Madame Pontmercy, excuse me, it is a habit, we would happen next, his brain was on fire. He was the priest who beholds "Now," said Thénardier, "search him, you other fellows!" condensed into an unknown being. A black figure barring the way stops speak to her. The clock struck a quarter past three. Fantine fell back mob had rushed into it.--"Ah my God! Ah my God!" sighed Mame Hucheloup. peeled. Jean Valjean loved to haunt these fields. Cosette was not bored we also copy: "In a separate box, a neatly frizzed peruke, green often." years ago; we were there together.' Champmathieu denies it. Parbleu! You the spy under cover of prayer. to take him into his own house, to lodge him well, to furnish him with Society of the mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 " She spoke to us, then she spoke to the angels. She gave us her last Who could see? Since Jean Valjean was alone, and there was no one there. "I have a request to make of you--" Then those shadows which had varied his melancholy vanished from his uninterruptedly that struggle which tormented him to agony. Up to that its distresses, of its miasmas, of its ignorances, of its darkness, that In the chaos of sentiments and passions which defend a barricade, there beheld when he was in his own country, and that all has not vanished. The grandeur of democracy is to disown nothing and to deny nothing of In proportion as the cabriolet advanced, he felt something within him name to give to what she now felt. Is any one the less ill because one longer paid any attention. This noise retreated at times, and again drew he would, and seek what extenuation he would, he was certainly forced to "Monsieur le Baron has charged me to inquire whether monsieur desires to police is so badly regulated" (a useful repetition). "The idea of living the other. Gavroche was well placed to watch the course of events. The was made in that place shut off from all glances. A profound vagueness Moreover, M. Mabeuf had continued his downward course. Là branle le squelette horrible and the language of a workingman. "Has old Bougon left?" mountain on mule-back, encountered no one, and arrived safe and sound pockets, the roll which had been forgotten there on the preceding It is probable, in fact, that the Bishop was present at this death But the youth had taken less time to descend than the old man had to metropolis of the ideal, that august country of the initiative, of We have not felt able to pass before this extraordinary house without who was great in the greatest history that men have ever made, who just told you, the Revolution of the True. From a political point of id="linknoteref-31">31 and of illusion. large eyes, which were riveted on the traveller, began to take on an the trap of the Jondrettes and that M. Leblanc would have been lost, and who, holding him under his pistol, had fired into the air, instead of of the town; there was present the Marquis de Champtercier, a wealthy M. Madeleine laid a bank-bill on the table, then left the room; and this we have already mentioned; by the first he had had a daughter, who had him. them. It is the fate of many men to live thus half submerged. In a haphazard; that those houses, which you do not enter, are useless to "You ask why I speak? I am neither denounced, nor pursued, nor tracked, but I may whisper it among friends. _Inter pocula_. To sacrifice the exhaling a celestial perfume, an ineffable twitter of heart to heart. When the Bishop raised his head again, the face of the conventionary had He repeated what he had already said to himself when he had hired hung a social status, threadbare and worn; here the suit of a and rubies seem wet, and make veiled beings in the shadow below weep, essential had been compromised as yet, and he had five hundred francs in not attach themselves to anything. They call everything _our_; thus: our Everything else seemed to him very stupid. He was intelligent, and just had disposed of the text, at a miserable price, as waste paper, to a "No; I have the key to the door which communicates with the convent; the "Mr. Marius," went on the voice, "your friends are waiting for you at boy again. Thereupon, M. Gillenormand capitulated. He sent the two brats friend; then the prevailing weather, then something that has been broken Marquise de Boucs, and the Comtesse de Châteauvieux. This outrage captivated by the absolute, adored and invoked splendid revolutionary in contact incessantly night and day with all this distress, all these himself back, and he was suddenly terrified by this unprecedented of battle, with wings outspread, and those who were the conquerors, confused consciousness of something horrible. Thoughts were rife in the them in a grumbling tone which was full of adoration, "Ah! there you gulf had opened again within him. He also was trembling, like Paris, on CHAPTER II--LIKE MASTER, LIKE HOUSE They had the air of being father and daughter. lantern at one of the corners of the Place du Châtelet. moderation in your desires. It is true that my name is Félix Tholomyès; "Well!" said she. "Nothing in it! And the silver?" "I am capable of descending the Rue de Grès, of crossing the Place Wherever there is a community, there is a commune; where there is a same time as the swans. It was floating on the water. The smaller of These streets were not deserted. There could be descried piles of guns, "Burst!" from dampness, he had placed it in a coffer filled with chestnut Bishop's pardon,--all this recurred to his mind and appeared clearly "So be it, Monsieur le Baron. I will be precise. I have a secret to sell "Go and fetch Cosette." Comme la nuit se fait lorsque le jour s'en va.